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Milked Dry: A Framing Analysis Of How Mass Media Helped Reframe The Public's Perception Of The Dairy Industry, Sequoia West Jan 2021

Milked Dry: A Framing Analysis Of How Mass Media Helped Reframe The Public's Perception Of The Dairy Industry, Sequoia West

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

This thesis investigates three documentaries (Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, The Milk System, and What the Health?) on the topic of the dairy industry and animal agriculture. A thematic analysis was conducted by using Erving Goffman’s Framing Theory to examine how dairy consumption has been framed over the past decade by the media, and how three documentaries contributed to a shift in the public’s perception and an overall decline of the dairy industry. The analysis consists of primary data (three documentaries) and secondary textual data from 45 social media posts culled from Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook. A consistent theme …


A Comparative Visual Content Analysis Of The Cdc And Who Covid-19 Infographics, Manushri Pandya Jan 2021

A Comparative Visual Content Analysis Of The Cdc And Who Covid-19 Infographics, Manushri Pandya

Masters Theses

"In this study, I conducted a comparative visual content analysis of the CDC and WHO COVID-19 infographics. I considered infographics as an important genre of communication during such times because they not only provided sufficient information to the audience but did so in an engaging manner. The goal of my study was to think about the role of infographics in the context of health and risk communication during a pandemic, and to emphasize on the rhetorical elements that constitute the creation of infographics by major health organizations. I specifically focused on three elements: the kinds of information communicated through infographics, …


Advertainers And Their Audience: Power Relations And Promotionalism In Hobbykidstv, Sherry Morley Jan 2021

Advertainers And Their Audience: Power Relations And Promotionalism In Hobbykidstv, Sherry Morley

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

YouTube presents itself as an egalitarian platform that promotes creativity and free expression among its creators, and that breaks with legacy media models. Among the mass of YouTube creators are top-earning “family influencers” who produce videos in which parents and their children are portrayed as leisurely playing and merely having fun. Behind the scenes, however, family influencer channels are capitalist, structured, and highly profitable. This thesis offers a case study of one family influencer channel, HobbyKidsTV. Exploring concepts of labour, leisure, agency, and consumer subjectivity, I de-naturalize HobbyKidsTV through a multimodal critical discourse analysis. Surfacing the power relations within HobbyKidsTV, …


Airbnbs In The Rural Midwest: Optimizing Listing Content For User’S Decision-Making Processes, Mary Catherine Kosacki Jan 2021

Airbnbs In The Rural Midwest: Optimizing Listing Content For User’S Decision-Making Processes, Mary Catherine Kosacki

Masters Theses

This research examines the effectiveness of rural Airbnb listing content in influencing user decision-making. The peer-to-peer economy has been rapidly growing over the past decade, providing new opportunities for individuals to offer goods and services to other individuals through corporate platforms. Specifically, the Airbnb platform has rapidly grown, becoming the largest online platform for peer-to-peer property rentals, and one of the largest companies in the peer-to-peer sector of the economy. Previous research on the Airbnb platform has focused primarily on urban areas; however, Airbnbs have a proportionally large impact on local economies in rural areas.

Several methods were employed to …


Nationalism Not Racism: President Trump’S Strategic Communication War Against China’S Coronavirus Propaganda, Young Joon Lim Jan 2021

Nationalism Not Racism: President Trump’S Strategic Communication War Against China’S Coronavirus Propaganda, Young Joon Lim

Communication Faculty Publications

This article conceptualizes strategic communication nationalism amid the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, this research explores traditional strategic use of communication such as nationalism, propaganda, PSYOP, and dissent public relations in an epistemic status, as well as new strategic use of communication such as rhetorical reappropriation, use of social media, and control of narratives toward global audiences. The focus is on the U.S. challenges emerging from the Chinese coronavirus propaganda campaign, which spreads disinformation to deflect blame for the outbreak via a spinning-a-tale narrative. This article relies on President Trump’s dissent strategic communication technique against the Chinese coronavirus propaganda campaign via Twitter, …


Individual Journalistic Bias Leads To Public Propaganda: The Integration Of Social Intuitionist Model (Sim) And Hierarchy Of Influences Model (Him), Young Joon Lim, Jennifer Lemanski Jan 2021

Individual Journalistic Bias Leads To Public Propaganda: The Integration Of Social Intuitionist Model (Sim) And Hierarchy Of Influences Model (Him), Young Joon Lim, Jennifer Lemanski

Communication Faculty Publications

The social intuitionist model (SIM) highlights the superiority of intuitive emotions over reasoning process in the link of moral judgment and reasoning, addressing the issues of private or individual intuitions of moral judgments on an interpersonal communication level. While the SIM can be applied to explain why journalists are biased and prone to producing intuitive news stories, the hierarchy of influences model (HIM) offers a theoretical framework that affects media content, which journalists and media organizations create in a social and cultural approach to propaganda. This chapter explores how the integration of SIM and HIM demonstrates the path to propagandistic …


Mainstream War Films: A Soft Power Tool For China’S Promotion Of Chinese National Identity And Patriotism, Fan Zhang Jan 2021

Mainstream War Films: A Soft Power Tool For China’S Promotion Of Chinese National Identity And Patriotism, Fan Zhang

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study focuses on cinema as an agent of soft power in promoting Chinese national identity and patriotism. This study used two research methods. First, a qualitative method of narrative analysis was used to examine three new mainstream films, Wolf Warrior 2, Operation Red Sea, and The Battle at Lake Changjin. The narrative analyses found that five types of national identity were identified using ethnic, cultural, and political dimensions: (1) belongingness and identification with the nation-state; (2) a sense of belonging and identification with the political institution; (3) a sense of identification with collectivism; (4) a sense of identification with …


การเปิดรับข่าวสารและปัจจัยที่มีอิทธิพลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัล ของกลุ่มผู้บริโภคเจเนอเรชันวาย, กฤตธี เปี่ยมสง่า Jan 2021

การเปิดรับข่าวสารและปัจจัยที่มีอิทธิพลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัล ของกลุ่มผู้บริโภคเจเนอเรชันวาย, กฤตธี เปี่ยมสง่า

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์สำรวจ การเปิดรับข่าวสารและอธิบายปัจจัยที่มีอิทธิพลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลของกลุ่มผู้บริโภคเจเนอเรชันวาย ใช้รูปแบบงานวิจัยเชิงปริมาณด้วยวิธีการวิจัยเชิงสำรวจ และเก็บข้อมูลโดยการใช้แบบสอบถามออนไลน์ ผ่านช่องทางสื่อสังคมออนไลน์จากกลุ่มตัวอย่างที่เป็นผู้บริโภคเจเนอเรชันวาย จำนวน 400 คน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า กลุ่มตัวอย่างมีความถี่ในการเปิดรับข่าวสารสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลผ่านสื่อไม่มีปฏิสัมพันธ์และสื่อมีปฏิสัมพันธ์ในระดับปานกลาง ความคาดหวังในประสิทธิภาพ ความคาดหวังในความพยายาม คุณค่าราคา การรับรู้ความเสี่ยง และการรับรู้ว่าน่าไว้วางใจ จัดอยู่ในระดับมาก มีเพียง อิทธิพลทางสังคม ที่จัดอยู่ในระดับปานกลาง ส่วนความตั้งใจใช้สินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลของกลุ่มตัวอย่าง ในภาพรวมพบว่าจัดอยู่ในระดับมาก ผลการทดสอบสมมติฐานพบว่า ปัจจัยที่มีอิทธิพลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลของกลุ่มตัวอย่าง อย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 ซึ่งตัวแปรที่มีอิทธิพลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัล ได้แก่ ความคาดหวังในประสิทธิภาพ (ß = 0.334) การรับรู้ว่าน่าไว้วางใจ (ß = 0.261) และอิทธิพลทางสังคม (ß = 0.156) โดยสมการความสัมพันธ์สามารถอธิบายได้ร้อยละ 50.8 (R2 = 0.508)


การใช้แฮชแท็กบนโซเชียลมีเดีย, ณฐมน โพธา Jan 2021

การใช้แฮชแท็กบนโซเชียลมีเดีย, ณฐมน โพธา

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มุ่งศึกษา (1) วัตถุประสงค์การใช้โซเชียลมีเดียแพลตฟอร์มที่เป็นที่นิยมในไทย ได้แก่ เฟซบุ๊ก ทวิตเตอร์ และอินสตาแกรม (2) แฮชแท็กในโซเชียลมีเดียแต่ละแพลตฟอร์ม และ (3) ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อการตัดสินใจ โดยใช้ระเบียบวิธีวิจัยแบบผสมผสาน จากการสำรวจด้วยแบบสอบถามผู้ใช้แฮชแท็กจำนวน 423 คน วิเคราะห์ร่วมกับข้อมูลเชิงคุณภาพจากการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกและการสนทนากลุ่ม ผลการศึกษาพบว่า ผู้ใช้แฮชแท็กส่วนใหญ่ใช้มากกว่า 1 แพลตฟอร์ม โดยใช้แฮชแท็กในทวิตเตอร์มากที่สุด รองลงมา คือ เฟซบุ๊ก และอินสตาแกรม วัตถุประสงค์การใช้แฮชแท็กมีความสอดคล้องกับวัตถุประสงค์การใช้โซเชียลมีเดีย คือ การตอบสนองด้านข้อมูลเป็นหลัก ซึ่งวัตถุประสงค์การใช้แฮชแท็กยังสามารถตอบสนองความต้องการของผู้ใช้ทั้งสิ้น 10 ด้าน ได้แก่ การค้นหาและติดตามข้อมูล สนับสนุนบุคคลที่ชื่นชอบ การจัดการข้อมูล การกระจายเนื้อหาและเข้าถึงผู้คนจำนวนมาก ประโยชน์ทางธุรกิจและการซื้อขายสินค้า ความสนุกสนานและตลกขบขัน การแสดงความคิดเห็น การสร้างความสัมพันธ์ การนำเสนอตนเอง สื่อความหมายและทดแทนอวัจนภาษา ซึ่งผลจากการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกและการสนทนากลุ่มจะให้รายละเอียดเพิ่มเติมในแต่ละประเด็น ด้านความแตกต่างระหว่างแพลตฟอร์ม การใช้แฮชแท็กในทวิตเตอร์จะเป็นข้อมูลที่เกี่ยวข้องกับสาธารณะและความสนใจส่วนบุคคล ขณะที่การใช้แฮชแท็กในอินสตาแกรมเป็นข้อมูลที่เน้นตนเองเป็นหลัก ส่วนเฟซบุ๊กเป็นการใช้แฮชแท็กในเชิงข้อมูลเกี่ยวกับคนรู้จักและการเน้นข้อความ นอกจากนี้พบว่าผู้ใช้แฮชแท็กตัดสินใจเลือกใช้แฮชแท็กจากปัจจัยที่เกี่ยวข้องกับตัวเอง สังคม ลักษณะแฮชแท็ก และการรองรับของแพลตฟอร์ม ผลการวิจัยแสดงให้เห็นว่า แม้ว่าแฮชแท็กจะถือกำเนิดจากการจัดระเบียบข้อมูล แต่ผลการศึกษาพบว่าการใช้แฮชแท็กสามารถตอบสนองการใช้ประโยชน์ที่หลากหลายตามทฤษฎีการใช้ประโยชน์และความพึงพอใจ ซึ่งแสดงให้เห็นถึงศักยภาพการใช้เครื่องมือสื่อสาร เพื่อตอบสนองความต้องการของตนในแต่ละด้าน


อิทธิพลของความน่าเชื่อถือของวีทูบเบอร์และสตรีมเมอร์ที่มีต่อความตั้งใจซื้อเกมของผู้ชมทั่วไปและโอตาคุ, อภิญญา สุรกานนท์ Jan 2021

อิทธิพลของความน่าเชื่อถือของวีทูบเบอร์และสตรีมเมอร์ที่มีต่อความตั้งใจซื้อเกมของผู้ชมทั่วไปและโอตาคุ, อภิญญา สุรกานนท์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ (1) เพื่อหาปัจจัยของความน่าเชื่อถือที่สามารถทำนายความตั้งใจซื้อเกมของผู้ชมทั่วไปและโอตาคุ (2) เพื่อวิเคราะห์ความแตกต่างระหว่างความน่าเชื่อถือของวีทูบเบอร์และสตรีมเมอร์ที่ส่งผลต่อความตั้งใจซื้อเกมในกลุ่มโอตาคุและผู้ชมทั่วไป โดยการวิจัยครั้งนี้ใช้ความน่าเชื่อถือ (ความเชี่ยวชาญในการเล่นเกม ความน่าดึงดูดใจ ความไว้วางใจ) ของวีทูบเบอร์และสตรีมเมอร์เป็นปัจจัยที่ใช้ในการทำนายความตั้งใจซื้อเกมในกลุ่มผู้ชมทั่วไปและกลุ่มโอตาคุ ผู้วิจัยเลือก วีทูบเบอร์ Aisha Channel และสตรีมเมอร์ zbing z เป็นตัวแทนในงานวิจัย ซึ่งการวิจัยครั้งนี้เป็นการวิจัยเชิงปริมาณใช้เทคนิคการสำรวจ กลุ่มตัวอย่างในการวิจัย คือ ผู้ที่มีคุณสมบัติเป็นโอตาคุ 200 คน และ ผู้ชมทั่วไป 200 คน และใช้แบบสอบถามออนไลน์ (Survey Monkey) ในการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูล และวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลด้วยการวิเคราะห์การถดถอยเชิงพหุคูณ ผลการวิจัยพบว่า ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างความน่าเชื่อถือต่อความตั้งใจซื้อของวีทูบเบอร์และสตรีมเมอร์ในกลุ่มผู้ชมทั่วไปและกลุ่มโอตาคุมีความสัมพันธ์เชิงบวกอย่างมีนัยสำคัญ และการวิเคราะห์การถดถอยเชิงพหุคูณ พบว่า องค์ประกอบสำคัญสำหรับการเพิ่มความตั้งใจซื้อเกมของ Aisha Channel ในกลุ่มผู้ชมทั่วไป คือ ความเชี่ยวชาญในการเล่นเกม และความน่าดึงดูดใน และกลุ่มโอตาคุ คือ ความเชี่ยวชาญในการเล่นเกม และความไว้วางใจ องค์ประกอบสำคัญสำหรับการเพิ่มความตั้งใจซื้อเกมของ zbring z. ในกลุ่มผู้ชมทั่วไป คือ ความน่าดึงดูดใจ และกลุ่มโอตาคุ คือ ความน่าดึงดูดใจและความไว้วางใจ


Consumers’ Perceived Credibility Of Beauty Key Opinion Leaders And Online Engagement With Beauty Brands On Twitter, Natchapa Deeudomwongsa Jan 2021

Consumers’ Perceived Credibility Of Beauty Key Opinion Leaders And Online Engagement With Beauty Brands On Twitter, Natchapa Deeudomwongsa

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This research aims to explore how consumers perceived the credibility of beauty key opinion leaders, how consumers engage with beauty brands reviewed by these beauty key opinion leaders and whether the two variables correlate with one another. The research was conducted on 200 respondents with the age range of 18 to 37 who were followers of one of the two beauty key opinion leader representatives on Twitter. Through the use of online questionnaire, the results indicated that overall, the perceived credibility of beauty key opinion leaders was positive (M = 4.08) with expertise receiving the highest average score of 4.15. …


The Influence Of Product Placement On Youtube On Dating App’S Consumers' Decision Making, Lyuyang Xu Jan 2021

The Influence Of Product Placement On Youtube On Dating App’S Consumers' Decision Making, Lyuyang Xu

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The purpose of this research is to study the influence of product placement on YouTube on dating apps' consumers' decision making. Online questionnaire is used as tool for collecting data through various websites. The sample size was 292 Thais from Facebook group, Line and Wechat room. Most of them are between 18-35 years old, are also social media addicted. The study found a positive correlation between product placement on YouTube and consumer intention to download dating apps. It turned out that consumer attitudes towards dating apps would impact consumer to make an informed decision regarding the selection of dating apps, …


Scientific Literacy At A Tragic Low: A Call For More Public Engagement In Science, Leah G. Jones Jan 2021

Scientific Literacy At A Tragic Low: A Call For More Public Engagement In Science, Leah G. Jones

Selected Full-Text Master Theses 2021-

Science is the catalyst for humanity’s progress. Without it, we would not understand our world, our universe, even our own bodies to the extent we do now. We would not have the ability to travel, connect, and innovate at the heights we currently enjoy. In fact, many people are alive today only because of scientific discoveries and advancements. Life-saving surgeries, medications, and implants impossible a mere hundred years ago are now routine, thanks to science. It follows that science should be revered, trusted, and understood. Unfortunately, in the information age, communication gets complicated. As with any other topic, there are …


The Circle Of Unity: The Power Of Symbols In A Team Sport Context, Brendan O'Hallarn, Craig A. Morehead, Mark A. Slavich, Alicia M. Cintron Jan 2021

The Circle Of Unity: The Power Of Symbols In A Team Sport Context, Brendan O'Hallarn, Craig A. Morehead, Mark A. Slavich, Alicia M. Cintron

University Administration Publications

Modern-day political discord has led to a recent spate of athletes using their platform to make statements about America. One under-researched aspect to modern sport activism is the study of the symbols themselves, such as the controversial kneeling during the national anthem by National Football League players, statement-making pregame apparel worn by National Basketball Association stars, and other political statements. This case study examines a 2016 activist display by Old Dominion University's football team, known as the Circle of Unity. The display, performed before most games that season, began as a form of protest by team captains, and morphed into …


Trust And Public Health Emergency Events: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review, Pradeep Sopory, Julie Novak, Ashleigh M. Day, Stine Eckert, Lee Wilkins, Donyale R. Padgett, Jane P. Noyes, Tomas Allen, Nyka Alexander, Marsha L. Vanderford, Gaya M. Gamhewage Jan 2021

Trust And Public Health Emergency Events: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review, Pradeep Sopory, Julie Novak, Ashleigh M. Day, Stine Eckert, Lee Wilkins, Donyale R. Padgett, Jane P. Noyes, Tomas Allen, Nyka Alexander, Marsha L. Vanderford, Gaya M. Gamhewage

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

The systematic review examined the phenomenon of trust during public health emergency events. The literature reviewed was field studies done with people directly affected or likely to be affected by such events and included quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, and case study primary studies in English (N = 38) as well as Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish (all non-English N = 30). Studies were mostly from high-and middle-income countries, and the event most covered was infectious disease. Findings from individual studies were first synthesized within methods and evaluated for certainty/confidence, and then synthesized across methods. The final set of 11 findings …


Internet Memes: Leaflet Propaganda Of The Digital Age, Joshua Troy Nieubuurt Jan 2021

Internet Memes: Leaflet Propaganda Of The Digital Age, Joshua Troy Nieubuurt

English Faculty Publications

Internet memes are one of the latest evolutions of “leaflet” propaganda and an effective tool in the arsenal of digital persuasion. In the past such items were dropped from planes, now they find their way into social media across multiple platforms and their territory is global. Internet memes can be used to target specific groups to help build and solidify tribal bonds. Due to the ease of creation, and their ability to constantly reaffirm axiomatic tribal ideas, they have become an adroit tool allowing for mass influence across international borders. This text explores the link between internet memes and their …


Society Doesn’T Owe You Anything: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas & Video Games As Speculative Fiction, Marc A. Ouellette Jan 2021

Society Doesn’T Owe You Anything: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas & Video Games As Speculative Fiction, Marc A. Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

Since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, popular and scholarly commentators have been looking for speculative and/or dystopic literary works that might provide analogues for the Trump-era. Perhaps the most famous of these was the renewed popularity of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. In this regard, though, video games remain an underexplored fictional form. With its exaggerated and parodic satire of an America ruled by the corruption and greed of extreme right-wing populism, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) offers a speculative fiction that players can enact as well as imagine and simulate as well as prepare. Thus, reading the …


Ranking Influential Nodes Of Fake News Spreading On Mobile Social Networks, Yunfei Xing, Xiwei Wang, Fang-Kwei Wang, Yang Shi, Wu He, Haowu Chang Jan 2021

Ranking Influential Nodes Of Fake News Spreading On Mobile Social Networks, Yunfei Xing, Xiwei Wang, Fang-Kwei Wang, Yang Shi, Wu He, Haowu Chang

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

Online fake news can generate a negative impact on both users and society. Due to the concerns with spread of fake news and misinformation, assessing the network influence of online users has become an important issue. This study quantifies the influence of nodes by proposing an algorithm based on information entropy theory. Dynamic process of influence of nodes is characterized on mobile social networks (MSNs). Weibo (i.e., the Chinese version of microblogging) users are chosen to build the real network and quantified influence of them is analyzed according to the model proposed in this paper. MATLAB is employed to simulate …


Entertainment Industry Sector Under The Spotlight: How Pr Professionals And Event Organizers Communicate During Pandemic Crisis, Andrei Galan Jan 2021

Entertainment Industry Sector Under The Spotlight: How Pr Professionals And Event Organizers Communicate During Pandemic Crisis, Andrei Galan

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

The COVID-19 pandemic has wounded sociality and limited the possibility to stay together: the essence of many forms of art. All the sectors whose activities are based on cultural values, or artistic, creative expressions, market or non-market oriented. It includes architecture, archives, libraries and museums, artistic crafts, audio-visual tangible and intangible cultural heritage, design, festivals, music, literature, performing arts, publishing, radio and visual arts. This paper aims to shed a light not only on the scarce literature on the field, but also on the particularities of how professionals communicate during pandemic crisis in the entertainment industry, especially at the moment …


Visit Intention And Destination Image In Post-Covid-19 Crisis Recovery, Albattat Ahmad, Azizul Jamaludin, Nini Shaliza, Mohd Zuraimi, Marco Valeri Jan 2021

Visit Intention And Destination Image In Post-Covid-19 Crisis Recovery, Albattat Ahmad, Azizul Jamaludin, Nini Shaliza, Mohd Zuraimi, Marco Valeri

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

The aim of this research is to analyze the factors influencing visit intention and destination image in post-Covid-19 crisis recovery. In post-crisis recovery, the factors influencing visit intention are physical, socio-psychological and financial factors. A total of 426 respondents were selected and analyzed using correlation and multiple regression analyses. The findings demonstrate that physical factors are the main factors that influence tourists’ visit intention. Additionally, destination image significantly affects visit intention and significantly mediates the relationship between the factors and visit intention. All this inevitably affects the organizational structure of the tourist destination.


2021 Icrcc Proceedings Table Of Contents, Conference Organizers Jan 2021

2021 Icrcc Proceedings Table Of Contents, Conference Organizers

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

These proceedings are a representative sample of the presentations given by professional practitioners and academic scholars at the 2021 International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference (ICRCC) held virtually March 8-10, 2021. The goal of the ICRCC is to bring together prominent professional risk and crisis communication practitioners and academic scholars from around the world to spend a few days networking and engaging in conversation about issues and problems related to risk and crisis communication in a variety of contexts (e.g., natural disasters, political crises, food safety issues, biosecurity, health epidemics and pandemics).


Public Opinion On Age Stereotypes During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Gabriella Sandstig Jan 2021

Public Opinion On Age Stereotypes During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Gabriella Sandstig

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

The news media can both mirror age stereotypes held by the public, as well as contribute to constructing or amplifying them. The first risk group identified in the pandemic was older adults. They are generally not so visible in the media, but during the pandemic, they were in focus. This study analyses to what extent the public agrees with age stereotypes during the COVID-19 pandemic and what characterizes the groups that hold them. Survey data from 04/14/20-06/28/20 on a national sample (6000) of the population of Sweden is used. The results, contrary to the expectation that stereotypes of older adults …


The Onslaught Of Crisis Leadership Advice: Sifting Through Popular Leadership Sources In The Covid-19 Era, R. Tyler Spradley Jan 2021

The Onslaught Of Crisis Leadership Advice: Sifting Through Popular Leadership Sources In The Covid-19 Era, R. Tyler Spradley

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

This study critiques COVID-19 crisis leadership discourse in authoritative sources for leadership advice including Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School’s COVID-19 Business Impact Center, and Real Leaders. Two central lines of inquiry drive this study: First, what are the pervasive practice-based recommendations typified in COVID-19 crisis leadership discourse? Second, whose interest does the COVID-19 crisis leadership discourse serve? Conclusions question the widespread practicality of advice and argue that advice functions to reassert the power dynamic of authoritative texts and super leaders over popular crisis leadership press. Furthermore, advice tends to promote command-and-control leadership with implications for taking …


Image Restoration Strategies For The (Mis-) Handling Of Covid – 19 Pandemic In Greece, Neofytos Aspriadis Jan 2021

Image Restoration Strategies For The (Mis-) Handling Of Covid – 19 Pandemic In Greece, Neofytos Aspriadis

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

During the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak all countries around the world used several kinds of response strategies to protect public health and control the outbreak. The main aim was to stop the disease from spreading into the community and put a pressure on the health system of the countries. However, severe measures like lockdown of cities and countries brought side-crises like economic pressure on the individuals, corporations and even the state itself. Although the Greek Government was considered to have managed the first phase of the crisis in March effectively, during the aftermath of the first phase, the complete opening of …


Communicating Crisis To Youth: The Role Of Caregiver Crisis Communication In Youth Sensemaking And Recovery., Ronda Oberlin Nowak Jan 2021

Communicating Crisis To Youth: The Role Of Caregiver Crisis Communication In Youth Sensemaking And Recovery., Ronda Oberlin Nowak

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

A qualitative study was conducted of the response to student deaths by the administrators of two rural high schools. The events are looked at in the dual context of incident management and communication processes, using Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) theory. Interviews were conducted with administrators and with members of a student support team that responded to these and similar events. The study finds that negotiation of meaning that takes place between students, and between students and caregivers, is key in students’ processing of the event that they are experiencing. It can also equip them to be more resilient to …


Police Reform: Understanding Interspersed Social Influences And The Propagation Of Public Policy During Covid19, Alexia L. Knox Jan 2021

Police Reform: Understanding Interspersed Social Influences And The Propagation Of Public Policy During Covid19, Alexia L. Knox

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

Social influence is described as a communications theory which involves three psychological processes: compliance, identification and internalization. The theory applies supplemental data from social psychology frameworks consisting of normative conformity and informative conformity research. Individuals can be influenced to demonstrate social behaviors and many of us can be influenced to change our behaviors depending on our psychological or social needs at that time. Propaganda is another social influence that affects crisis communications. These topics will be discussed to better understand social influence and social behaviors while also analyzing legitimate authority interpositions during the coronavirus global crisis. Further, this research task …


The Promotion Of Social Awakening Through The Speech Of Lewis Richardson: A Metaphorical Lens That Is Echoed Today, Suha Mohammed Jan 2021

The Promotion Of Social Awakening Through The Speech Of Lewis Richardson: A Metaphorical Lens That Is Echoed Today, Suha Mohammed

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

This analysis will illustrate how a journey through the lens of metaphorical criticism can openly display the hardships, life, and reality of past African American voices, as their stories echo through the rhetor, Lewis Richardson. An examination of a striking speech that speaks volumes, recited by Lewis Richardson, will unravel the depth in imagery, interpretation, and symbolism from an application of a metaphorical critical lens that tells a story that just keeps getting louder and louder as it grows unheard. “When metaphor is seen as a way of knowing the world, it plays a particular role in argumentation” [8]. This …


2021 International Crisis And Risk Communication Conference Program, Conference Organizers Jan 2021

2021 International Crisis And Risk Communication Conference Program, Conference Organizers

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

Program to the to the 11th Annual International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference sponsored by the Nicholson School of Communication and Media.


“Whose Team Is It Anyway?”: Exploring The Impact Of Coaching Changes On Forensics Team Culture, Brenton Lynn Mitchell Jan 2021

“Whose Team Is It Anyway?”: Exploring The Impact Of Coaching Changes On Forensics Team Culture, Brenton Lynn Mitchell

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Previous research in the field has documented the many aspects of coaching difficulties faced by forensic teams (Chouinard & Kuyper, 2010; Louis, 2011; Outzen, 2016; White, 2005 & 2010). While research in this area is necessary to understand the struggles associated with a coaching change and the impact it has on team culture, little research has been done to analyze how the students are affected by the shift in coaches and the changing culture of the team. This thesis examines how collegiate forensics competitors navigate these difficult transitions in an activity that heavily influences the creation of close relationships between …


Jrsm 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Thomas J. Hrach Jan 2021

Jrsm 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Thomas J. Hrach

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic instruction in journalistic forms and AP style; information gathering and composition of news stories; media literacy.